The sun peeked through the window at 5:30 that morning. Kai casually watched it. Her fangs were clearly visible and her ears twitched, listening for sound. She knew the vampire called 'Spike' was already up, and she could smell blood. It made her mouth water to think about a cup of blood again. Or to sink her teeth into flesh.

She controlled that animalistic side of herself with a quick shake of her head. She knew the vampire knew she was awake and out here.

The blanket she had used was resting neatly on the bed, and she sighed, examining her side. With her demon like abilities it had healed mostly, so she knew they could travel, or at least make plans today. She sighed again.

Touma… What are you doing now? She thought miserably.

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In a dark castle a young man waited in his cell. He was covered in blood and there was little to no light. The floors were dirty and his clothes ragged. But his eyes remained bright, a deep brown, and his disheveled hair was a nice tanish brown. He was murmuring something quietly, barely audible as he hung his head between his knees, his body weighed down heavily by chains.

"Ehs…. Ehs lliw emoc rof em….. ehs lliw.." 'She… she will come for me…. She will…' was what he said. He looked out the small window that cast moonlight to his small cell.

"Kai…"

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Kai blinked out of her trance when the slayer, Buffy, sat next to her. She looked out the window too, at the sun that was just rising.

"How many of us do you need?"

"Anyone powerful. I need you for the prophecy. Your friend, the spell caster…. Willow, isn't it? Well she would be a good help. Your friend, the vampire who is taunting me with the blood, he could be useful. And the older guy that I expect to be a retired watcher might come in handy too. You can ask for help from the other guy, and your sister if you want."

"No. Not Dawn."

"Fine by me, I wouldn't want her to get hurt either. Sweet kid." Both were silent a moment.

"How can you trust us so much?" Kai laughed bitterly and carefully untied the bandana.

"Look closely." Buffy did, all she could see was a scar…. Suddenly the 'scar' opened and a purple eye peered at her.

"It is a demon eye." She stated, sitting back.

"I can see far away with it, and I can read your thoughts and intentions." Buffy was silent as she put the bandage over it again. More silence.

"What is the black dragon?"

"A thing that will destroy the world."

"Where do I come in?"

"I need a powerful person from earth to help me summon it, you wont die but I'll be possessed and if I get out of control you have to kill me and all that crap."

"How long have you been watching us?"

"For a long time now Slayer, a long, long time. You and I used to be play mates believe it or not. Before all this shit ensued we always played together on Earth and Htrae."

"Why can't a remember?"

"Your damn mother sealed you inside a pregnant woman's body before the dimension's closed and locked your memory away. In demon years you are older than me, but in human years I'd say you were only a bit older than that Spike fellow."

"Is my 'mother' still alive." Kai didn't answer for a few minutes, but finally she did.

"Yes."

"Can I see her?"

"Sure, whatever."

"Why did other girls become slayers too?"

"Because it was the time of need, it was all the first's fault really."

"How's the wound?"

"It'll heal, much better now; just sore." Buffy seemed to nod and drank the coffee she had been holding the whole time.

"So you're half vampire/demon and half human?"

"Yes. My mother was a human and my father was a vampire, but both of my parents had a little bit of fox demon in them." Catching Buffy's next sentence she smiled.

"You'll be surprised. Htrae is very peculiar." Suddenly a weight was tossed next to them and Dawn's anxious eyes stared up at the two.

"How old are you?"

"Old enough to be your great, great, great, etc, etc, grandmother."

"Buffy… why didn't you ever tell me about this?"

"Because even I didn't know." Dawn gave Buffy an 'I don't believe you because you've told too many lies' look and returned her attention to what to her was a fairy tale.

"What type of creatures do you have to fight?"

"The usual, dragons, ogres, trolls, wizards, flesh eating horses, monster rabbits, and- what? I'm not making this up!"

"That sounds really weird."

"Well if you think that's weird a thing you earth people called 'cars' or something tried to eat me!" there were several seconds of silence before Dawn burst into laughter and Buffy had to hide her smile behind her coffee. 

"What?"

"We build cars, you probably ran out into the street so someone almost ran you over." Kai's face reddened.

"Stupid technology."

"Don't you have any?"

"Any what?"

"Computers, television, cameras… ya know, technology!" Dawn says. Kai shakes her head.

"Hun, we still live in huts, castles with motes and labyrinths and underground caverns. But of course we do have air-pressurized vehicles. Hell, we even have horses to ride and armor to wear… swords, the good stuff." She pats her own sword with a goofy smile. Dawn giggles and then silence resumes.

"Do you drink blood?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm trying to control what little control I have."

"So in other words your not aloud?"

"Yep."

"Why?"

"Because I don't want to turn into a beast."

"Spike's not a beast."

"That's because he's got good patience and control."

"No, he's just got a chip, he can't harm humans." Kai raises and eyebrow obviously amused.

"Not funny." A new voice says. Spike has been listening the whole time, leaning against the wall with a warm cup of pig's blood in his hand. Kai sighs, miserable.

"You're doing that on purpose."

"I know." Spike leers. Kai rolls her eyes.

"Maybe I should feed him to a dragon when I get home."

"What do your dragons look like?"

"They breathe fire, they're really large, some are nice some are good and their breath stinks."

"You mentioned something about corpses last night." Giles enters the scene and Kai sighs.

"They are exactly what you think-zombies only sooo much worse." She shivers.

"I absolutely HATE those things."

"One more question." Buffy says.

"Go ahead, ask."

"When are we going to leave?"

TBC!

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